Digital Annealer - Quantum Computing Technology, Available Today

Optimize and innovate with Fujitsu’s Quantum-Inspired computing technology - performance that is generations ahead

Fujitsu's Digital Annealer provides an alternative to quantum computing technology, which is at present both very expensive and difficult to run. Using a digital circuit design inspired by quantum phenomena, the Digital Annealer focuses on rapidly solving complex combinatorial optimization problems without the added complications and costs typically associated with quantum computing methods.

The Digital Annealer computational architecture bridges the gap to the quantum world and paves the way for much faster, more efficient solving of today’s business problems. Our quantum-inspired computing solution is designed to solve large-scale combinatorial optimization problems which are unsolvable using today’s classical computers.

Optimize and innovate with the Digital Annealer technology solution

Fujitsu IT Products Limited required a solution to optimize routing and in-stock parts placement. By reducing the time required to select parts and the distance covered by optimizing routes, shelf layout, and parts placement, Digital Annealer effectively reduced the overall travel distance by up to 45%.

Fujitsu Digital Annealer Quantum-Inspired Computing: Real world use cases

Automotive: Factory Optimization

Car manufacturers are looking to improve production efficiencies in order to accelerate deployment of new vehicles. Tasks include logistics improvements, vehicle design and robotics optimization. Digital Annealer-powered production aims to identify errors and flaws such as corrosion, defects, and quality issues immediately improving overall production planning and ultimately vehicle delivery.

Bio/Material Science: Faster Molecular Similarity Search

Chemical and pharmaceutical laboratories use molecular similarity searching, which partially extracts molecule characteristics to search for new substances and to develop new drugs. Digital Annealer-powered research explores entire molecular structures without relying on extraction, thereby enabling accurate, instant similarity searching.

Banking and Financial Services: Low-Risk Portfolio Optimization

The Digital Annealer-powered portfolio solution finds the ideal investment allocation to maximize returns by grouping stocks that correlate with price variations, enabling portfolios to be managed with accuracy and reduced risk. The Digital Annealer solution can instantly find the best permutation from among 20 or more stocks (equivalent to more than one quintillion permutations).

Distribution: Warehouse Inventory Management

In factories and distribution warehouses, the time it takes workers to walk around picking parts can be lengthy. Using the Digital Annealer within its own factory environment, the Fujitsu IT services team was able to optimize routes and in-stock part placement, enabling workers to successfully reduce distance traveled by up to 45%, significantly increasing productivity.

Retail: Personalized Digital Marketing

Using the Digital Annealer, marketing agencies and retail companies can accurately and instantly deliver personalized content to existing and prospective customers through engaging and targeted web content, thereby influencing their purchase decisions.

The solution is offered as Fujitsu Digital Annealer Quantum-Inspired Services, comprised of
Technical and Cloud Services to help business optimize and transform operations.

Digital Annealer Business Applications

Route Optimization

Finding the shortest path to a destination - ideal for identifying the quickest transportation routes, public transportation planning, and also applicable in factory robot route optimization.

Industrial Equipment & Networks

Identifying network design problems and developing optimal communication networks for telecom networks, oil and gas pipelines, etc.

Deliveries & Scheduling

Optimizing delivery plans and scheduling - ideal for postal and logistics services requiring delivery scheduling improvements, employee work hours scheduling and event coordination.

Distribution & Warehouse Operations

Improving placement of in-stock parts in factories, stores, and distribution warehouses.

Disaster Recovery

Providing an efficient and quick recovery, rescue and aid plan in the event of a calamity.

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Global Partner Collaboration

Fujitsu remains committed to developing leading technology solutions and services to serve global customers, and close collaboration with partners is essential to supporting our customers’ success. Fujitsu has established strong relationships with leading vendor partners and academia in the quantum arena with the goal to advance quantum-inspired technology and optimization services to benefit organizations today and continue to evolve in the future.

Fujitsu opens research lab in Toronto to accelerate the implementation of Digital Annealer for societal benefit.

On March 14, 2018 at the University of Toronto, Fujitsu held the opening ceremony for the Fujitsu Co-Creation Research Laboratory at the University of Toronto. The laboratory is Fujitsu’s new research hub that will accelerate the research of innovative computing technologies including Digital Annealer.

The world’s only vendor of commercial quantum computer software (as of December 2017)

"Of course, our relationship with Fujitsu is a real honor for all of us here at 1QBit. The Fujitsu Digital Annealer is one of the first pieces of really usable hardware that can leverage all of the research that 1QBit has engineered over the past four years." - Andrew Fursman, CEO, 1QB Information Technologies Inc.